To paraphrase a political quote from the early 1990s: "It's the Sun, stupid!"

I am a global warming skeptic, I admit. I'm not ashamed of being a huge skeptic of human-induced global warming which I believed to be nothing more than just an inconvenient fear-mongering hoax designated to blame the reckless human race - or more squarely upon the "reckless" people of the United States of America - for the sudden rise of greenhouse temperatures upon the planet as result of massive pollution, environmental problems, and so-called greedy competition and consumption of resources. The recent, most talk-about film last spring, "An Inconvenient Truth", widely supported and promoted by Al Gore (who also "conveniently" distanced himself from the film after critics panned it and resulted in lackluster box office revenues), have shown disproportionately one-sided views and warnings about global warming across the planet, brimmed with political overtones and slams on the United States being the world's largest polluter and no. 1 cause of global warming - a fact completely overblown and out of line.

Even the film highlighted the criticism against the Bush administration for rejecting the Kyoto Treaty of which I strongly supported President Bush's decision to reject the treaty outright. The treaty would have been a huge economic disaster for the world's most powerful and richest country - if the treaty would have been ratified and enforced - even President Bill Clinton had serious second thoughts about the Kyoto Treaty and refuse to sign the treaty prior to his leaving the White House, which prompted an angry head-on confrontation with his then-Vice President Al Gore! The Kyoto Treaty would have punish the world's wealthiest economies with too-strict impositions and regulations on environmental usage, consumption and pollution but would spare three of the world's most populous (and supposedly "poor") nations of any environmental imposition and regulation in the long run: China, India and Indonesia. The treaty was politically and economically slanted to those countries' favors, as it turned out (hence the reason why President Clinton and later President Bush decided to reject the treaty).

Human-induced global warming is really an inconvenient hoax. So why did I paraphrased, "It's the Sun, stupid!"?

From 2004: The truth about global warming - it's the Sun that's to blame

"The Sun is in a changed state. It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently - in the last 100 to 150 years."

The planet Mars is experiencing global warming

Monster storm is a sign of global warming on JUPITER!

Neptune's largest moon, Triton, is experiencing global warming!

Pluto, too!

According to most astronomers and scientists, virtually all the planets and its satellites in the Solar System are experiencing global warming in more or less fashion as result of the Sun getting hotter than ever, creating the effects of a solar warming across the system.

Global warming is a natural phenomenon that occurred on Earth for several millions years, even long before the "reckless polluting" human race ever came to being, thanks to the Sun's frequent solar cycles of warming and cooling. It will still occur on Earth long after the "reckless polluting" human race cease to be. How much of us polluting the planet wouldn't make a hill of beans out of it as long as the Sun's greatly attributing to the human race's ability to survive on production and consumption of resources just to live a life on the planet.

All we can do is to adapt, innovate, improvise and deal with it.


On this Wednesday, November 22nd, I will reveal the Secret about 2007! Keep an eye on my blog. ;-)

NOTE: The photograph of the Sun is by Dan Klein of Dan Klein Photography (SOURCE).

UPDATE! 11.27.2006: The nation's top hurricane scientists are divided on whether it's the truth.

It has been the quietest hurricane season for the United States this year, with fewer hurricanes so far.